Zeljka Zorz
80% of U.S. government domains still without DNSSEC
Eighty percent of all U.S. federal agencies didn’t succeed in deploying DNSSEC on their Web sites by the end of 2009, as demanded by the U.S.’s government mandate …
Tor Project infrastructure breached, users advised to upgrade
Tor users have been advised to upgrade to Tor 0.2.1.22 or 0.2.2.7-alpha, following a security breach that left two of the seven directory authorities compromised (moria1 and …
Unknown virus brings down UK university network
The network of UK’s University of Exeter was hit on Monday by what they claim “is a completely new virus and we are the only organisation in the world to …
More privacy rights violations in China
In a move that has been interpreted as yet another violation of privacy rights, the Chinese government has announced a campaign against pornography that will include automatic …
Banking Trojan coming at you from all sides
Using the very effective tactic of multiple attack vectors, the makers of the Zbot banking Trojan are ensuring a high enough infection rate for them to make profit. A recent …
Pharma spam on forums near you
Forever searching for new ways to accost naive shoppers, fake and/or illegal on-line pharmacy sites have lately taken to forcing their ads on unsuspecting forum visitors. …
SASFIS Trojan treads lightly
The SASFIS Trojan variants may be not as famous and well-known as BREDOLAB’s or Zeus/Zbot’s, but they still pose a considerable danger to users and networks around …
Fear of stealth hackers
One of the biggest fears that software companies have is that someday hackers will manage to steal the source code of their products and modify it so that they can secretly …
Hiding from Google
Worried about Google tracking your online activity? Not satisfied with Tor’s speed? A (partial) solution to your problem has been set up by Moxie Marlinspike, a hacker …
Networks Solutions breached, hundreds of sites defaced
Network Solutions, the well-known U.S. hosting provider and domain registrar that manages over 6.6 million domain names, confirmed on Tuesday that their servers have been …
Google petitions for a EU security and privacy committee
As one of the reasons behind its practice of keeping users’ IP addresses and search histories Google mentions their use as tools for combating attacks such as the one …
Virus signature checksum risks
The notion of virus signatures is very easy for laymen to grasp if they stick to this analogy: anti-virus solutions detecting malware trying to pass itself as an innocuous …